Class Note 1997
Issue
March-April 2020
Continuing from the last column on ’97 couples…Sarah (Johnston) Ellenberg and Michael Ellenberg met at Moosilauke on their freshman trip, started dating a few months later, and dated all through Dartmouth and law school at NYU. They got married in 1999 in New York City. Sarah and Michael now live in Los Angeles with their two children, Bobby, age 12, and Davida, age 7, and their dog Fenway.
Sarah wrote: “I’m a lifelong public defender and just recently left to do holistic juvenile defense as part of a nonprofit, Law Project of Los Angeles. Michael is a TV and movie producer with his own studio, Media Res. Look out for his latest show, The Morning Show, which just launched Apple’s streaming service in November.
“My favorite Dartmouth memory is probably film society meetings with movie talk and pie from Lou’s.”
Paige (Kambas) Wolfe, who is married to Steve Wolfe, wrote: “We met freshman year, Winter Carnival weekend, on Beta’s dance floor. Steve invited me to the Winter Carnival formal the following night.
“A memorable experience took place one spring after a rainstorm. As we were walking by Baker Library, Steve dipped me, holding my head above a large puddle on the sidewalk. As Steve teased me about my precarious position, I turned my head toward Baker to see a tour group standing just outside the library doors. The fact people were watching us made the situation even funnier.”
The Wolfes live in central Connecticut with 13-year-old daughter Ella and 11-year-old son Ian. Paige does some financial consulting but mostly manages the household and volunteers in the community. Steve is an ear, nose, and throat surgeon who enjoys being outdoors, especially hunting and fly fishing.
Craig Allen and Dawn Lawrie met in their “Math 22” class. Craig wrote: “I had heard about Dawn from Dave Gershenson ’96, one of her foreign study program classmates who was my fraternity brother, but hadn’t met her until she sat next to me the first day of class that summer. She stood out in my mind since she was late to class, likely due to her recent knee surgery, and she was sporting a pair of bright blue braces to go along with her crutches.
“We eventually started dating that fall, and after graduating we both moved to Boston and lived in an apartment near Cleveland Circle with a few other classmates, Dave Coleman, Chad Sclove, and Josh Mills. Jeremy Segal and Mike Mearls were frequent visitors from New York in those days, as they came up to volunteer at the Boston Jewish community center.
“One day we got a phone call from Dawn’s parents, who were surprised to discover their daughter was engaged. Dawn and I were equally surprised, since at that time we weren’t engaged. It turned out that Jeremy and Mike had conspired to send in a fraudulent update to the alumni magazine, in which they made up a whole raft of half-truths about us and our housemates, culminating in a fake engagement announcement. Dawn’s parents (her dad is class of 1968), frequent alumni magazine readers, were the first to discover the prank.
“Dawn and I are now happily married and living in Columbia, Maryland, with our two daughters.”
Craig tried to get Jeremy and Mike back by falsely claiming that Mike works in research for a food delivery company in Seattle and Jeremy is a large animal veterinarian in Chicago. But history will not repeat itself on my watch.
Thanks for all the great love stories. Take care and keep sending your news.
—Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, TX 77096; jhcasell@gmail.com
Sarah wrote: “I’m a lifelong public defender and just recently left to do holistic juvenile defense as part of a nonprofit, Law Project of Los Angeles. Michael is a TV and movie producer with his own studio, Media Res. Look out for his latest show, The Morning Show, which just launched Apple’s streaming service in November.
“My favorite Dartmouth memory is probably film society meetings with movie talk and pie from Lou’s.”
Paige (Kambas) Wolfe, who is married to Steve Wolfe, wrote: “We met freshman year, Winter Carnival weekend, on Beta’s dance floor. Steve invited me to the Winter Carnival formal the following night.
“A memorable experience took place one spring after a rainstorm. As we were walking by Baker Library, Steve dipped me, holding my head above a large puddle on the sidewalk. As Steve teased me about my precarious position, I turned my head toward Baker to see a tour group standing just outside the library doors. The fact people were watching us made the situation even funnier.”
The Wolfes live in central Connecticut with 13-year-old daughter Ella and 11-year-old son Ian. Paige does some financial consulting but mostly manages the household and volunteers in the community. Steve is an ear, nose, and throat surgeon who enjoys being outdoors, especially hunting and fly fishing.
Craig Allen and Dawn Lawrie met in their “Math 22” class. Craig wrote: “I had heard about Dawn from Dave Gershenson ’96, one of her foreign study program classmates who was my fraternity brother, but hadn’t met her until she sat next to me the first day of class that summer. She stood out in my mind since she was late to class, likely due to her recent knee surgery, and she was sporting a pair of bright blue braces to go along with her crutches.
“We eventually started dating that fall, and after graduating we both moved to Boston and lived in an apartment near Cleveland Circle with a few other classmates, Dave Coleman, Chad Sclove, and Josh Mills. Jeremy Segal and Mike Mearls were frequent visitors from New York in those days, as they came up to volunteer at the Boston Jewish community center.
“One day we got a phone call from Dawn’s parents, who were surprised to discover their daughter was engaged. Dawn and I were equally surprised, since at that time we weren’t engaged. It turned out that Jeremy and Mike had conspired to send in a fraudulent update to the alumni magazine, in which they made up a whole raft of half-truths about us and our housemates, culminating in a fake engagement announcement. Dawn’s parents (her dad is class of 1968), frequent alumni magazine readers, were the first to discover the prank.
“Dawn and I are now happily married and living in Columbia, Maryland, with our two daughters.”
Craig tried to get Jeremy and Mike back by falsely claiming that Mike works in research for a food delivery company in Seattle and Jeremy is a large animal veterinarian in Chicago. But history will not repeat itself on my watch.
Thanks for all the great love stories. Take care and keep sending your news.
—Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, TX 77096; jhcasell@gmail.com